From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 8 12:47:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2856A1528D; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 12:47:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id VAA03183; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 21:33:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA03481; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 20:42:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199909081842.UAA03481@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: K6 Write Combining & FreeBSD In-Reply-To: from "Brian F. Feldman" at "Sep 7, 1999 7:25:26 pm" To: green@FreeBSD.org (Brian F. Feldman) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 20:42:04 +0200 (CEST) Cc: peter@netplex.com.au, aa8vb@ipass.net, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Brian F. Feldman wrote ... > On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > Wilko (confused...) > > No, I already committed the change to comment it out in -STABLE. I will > investigate further, but I will definitely not have it in by -RELEASE time. OK, clear. I was just worried it would silently sneak itself in 3.3R. 3.3-RC suddenly sporting it sort of worried me.. > No problem has been noticed before because XFree86 has not supported MTRRs > until recently (snapshots of pre-4.0.) I am going to see what could be > wrong, and possibly reenable the code at a later date. For now, it's > considered "dangerous" and you shouldn't mess with it unless you are willing > to accept the risks that entails. The first thing I did was comment it out, even before I got this email ;-) Thanks, Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message